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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[2753] 2 Tim. i. 7, 8; Rom. viii. 15.
[2756] Instead of μέγιστοι, read from Rom. xv. 13, 14, μεστοί.
[2758] 1 Cor. iv. 9, 11, 12, 13.
[2759] [ii. 5. Compare Cicero’s Rep., iii. 17.]
[2761] For σώματος read ωτηρίας.
[2762] 1 Cor. xiii. 13. [Not without allusion to the grand Triad, however. p. 101, this volume.]
[2765] 1 Cor. x. 26, 28, 29, 30, 31.
[2767] Col. iii. 12, 14, 15.
Chapter VIII.—Women as Well as Men, Slaves as Well as Freemen, Candidates for the Martyr’s Crown.
[2768] [The Edin. Translator says “courted the death;” but surely (μελετησάντων) the original merely states the condition of Christians in the second century, “dying daily,” and accepting in daily contemplation the very probable death “by which they should glorify God.”]
[2769] [Note the Catholic democracy of Christianity, which levels up and not downward.]
[2770] [This vindication of the equality of the sexes is a comment on what the Gospel found woman’s estate, and on what it created for her among Christians.]
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